MASTER AND SERVANT.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1984, 14 May 1875, Page 3

MASTER AND SERVANT.

The following story, as illustrating the relations'between masters and servants in ; Victoria may .not bey uninteresting to - readers at a'distance. One of our wealthy , aquatters, a gentleman wU'ovholds. a seat in the Legislature, lives with his family on .;%station in the.Western district. ,As part of his household, he has a man en- > K'aged''to.rfcfc,ai coachman" and groom. This man was lately asked by his mistress, • -, daring the illness of the man of all work, whose business 'it* was to carry tw.o full; of- milk, forthe family consumption, from the dairy, a quarter of a • im&e distant, to the house. He declined ' respectfully but firmly. It was out of . -his department; it ,was not in his agreement ; he was engaged to look after the carriage and horses. "What am I to do ? " -the lady asked her husband, " I > can't ask- any of the girls to go, and we must hare the milk." The M .P. rang for his coftchman and ordered the carriage out at once, as he wanted a short drive : before breakfast. When it came around the legislator stepped into it, carrying a ' bucket? in each hand. "To the dairy " w»kS his order. The man accordingly 1 drore to the dairy, where the master got out with"his buckets, and had them filled with milk, and carried them back again to the carriage, f Home," was his next ' command, and home he brought the milk. The next morning the same performance " was gone through, but on the third, when the carriage was ordered as before, the ' coachman ;said, "If it's to go for the milk, sir—if it's all the same thing to you, sir— I'd rather go arid fetch it myself."- He had made a mental calculation, and found ' that by sticking to the letter of his agree- - ment he had given himself about three times as much'work as he need have done.